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Avoid Blotchy Velvet: Makers’ Rules for Cutting Pile Weave Fabric Pile weave fabric is a textile with upright loops or cut yarn ends rising from a flat ground weave, and those raised fibers, called the pile, are what give velvet its sheen and terrycloth its absorbency. Two questions decide almost everything about how a pile fabric behaves: is the pile cut or left as loops, and does it run from the warp or the weft? Velvet, corduroy, and rugs sit on one side of that split; terrycloth and looped upholstery sit on the other. TL;DR: Pile fabric construction can be either cut or loop, and woven …